Inorganic Chemistry by Chrispin Kowenje - HTML preview

3.General Pro-

- Examine the valencies of the s-, and p-block elements.

perties of s and p

- Predict and state the common oxidation states for s-, and p-

Block Elements

block elements.

- Predict the formula and the name of simple compounds of

s- and p-block elements.

- Explain the stability of common oxidation state for s and p

block elements.

- Predict and explain the trend in the chemical and physical

properties of s-block elements.

- Predict and explain the trend in the chemical and physical

properties of p-block elements.

- Explain, give examples of the anomalous behaviour of the

first (period 2) elements.

- Describe what Inert pair effect is.

- State and give example of diagonal relationships in the

periodic table.

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